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Brisco went down. Another shot rang out and his mother went down too. Kort turned to find McGee and the rest of the MCRT behind him.
“I didn’t need the help, but thanks.”
McGee scurried over to Kort. “Are you ok?”
Kort looked at him in confusion, “Why do you care?”
“Haven’t you figured out that I have a crush on you?” McGee frowned as he started touching Kort, looking for any hidden injuries.
Kort shook his head, “No. I thought you were just playing an undercover role for this op.”
“I’m not that good of an actor.”
Kort handed the evidence to McGee. “Here this should give you my mother’s DNA. You can match it to your crime scene.”
McGee took the evidence bags and handed them off to Bishop before pulling Kort into a deep kiss after having determined that the guy didn’t appear to need medical attention. Kort sputtered. He really didn’t know what was up with McGee.
For someone who had always seemed shy and introverted, the guy was practically demanding his submission with this kiss. Kort didn’t roll over for just anyone, but he found it really hard to care that McGee was controlling the kiss. Which is not to say that he was just giving in and letting McGee’s tongue do whatever it wanted, no he was giving as good as he got in return.
“What happened to the shy geek I used to run into?” Kort coughed out as he tried to catch his breath after that kiss.
“Oh, I still have an inner geek, don’t worry.”
“This is what comes of LARPing more confident characters and working to bring up his skills as SFA now that Gibbs is retiring.” Tony interrupted patting McGee on the back.
“Tony!” McGee glared, a bright red suffusing his face as he blushed. He hadn’t intended to reveal all of that to Kort, yet.
Kort chuckled and followed McGee and Tony back to NCIS as they bickered good naturedly. Gibbs and Bishop had taken Brisco and Kort’s mother to the hospital to get checked out and would meet them back at NCIS if Brisco and Kort’s mother were healthy enough to be released. If not, Gibbs would call and they’d head over to the hospital.
The shots were well placed though and while painful, weren’t life threatening. The doctors quickly patched the two suspects up and sent them on their way. Gibbs and Bishop then took them back to headquarters for questioning.
The suspects were placed in separate interrogation rooms before Bishop and Gibbs joined the rest of them in the bullpen. Tony and Gibbs exchanged looks before Tony waved his hand and offered, “Go ahead. It’s your last case, after all. You should do the interrogations.”
Gibbs nodded his head and moved to the interrogation room containing Brisco while everyone else moved to the viewing room. Kort knew he needed to have a conversation with McGee about the man’s feelings for him. Before he could even contemplate how to start that conversation, his brain ground to a halt as DiNozzo offered him a job on the team.
“What?”
”I’ve already talked it over with the director and if you want, you can have a place on our team. With Gibbs retiring we need a fourth and your skills would be very useful.”
“Why?”
“You don’t seem interested in playing the CIA game anymore. Thought perhaps you would be interested in a job where you could be yourself and stay on the legal side of the line.”
“I’ll have to think about it.”
“Of course.” Tony turned his attention back to the interrogation.
Kort’s mind was spinning. He’d knew the MCRT had more motive than McGee’s crush and the case involving Brisco and his mom, but he never expected this. It was amusing how fast Brisco turned on his mother, quickly claiming that everything was her fault.
Of course, the MCRT had collected enough evidence of his involvement that there was no way he was escaping even more jail time. This time, he wouldn’t be placed in a prison that he could escape from so easily. Plus, most of his connections would be going down with him.
Even more revealing than Brisco’s interrogation was the interrogation of his mother. Apparently, both his mother and father had been spies and their relationship was largely blackmailing each other because of it. His father had made a deal that Garrett would be kicked out of the house in exchange for the CIA not killing Garrett no matter how bad he was as an agent.
As long as his father was alive, he’d been protected. That was why they hadn’t killed him when they killed Trent Kort. He still disliked his father, but he could at least see that the man wasn’t all bad as far as fathers go.
Brisco and his mother had been in an off again on again relationship since before he was born. He actually wasn’t sure if he had his father’s DNA or Brisco’s DNA, which was more than a little disturbing to him. Apparently, things had been getting even worse between his father and his mother and she’d finally gotten tired of being married to him.
Of course, instead of getting a divorce like most normal people would, she’d hired Brisco to kill him instead. The CIA had even paid for half of the hit as they realized with his father gone that they could actually kill Kort like they’d been wanting to do for a while. Garrett shook his head.
With that confession, they would be ages weeding out who in the CIA was or wasn’t involved. Needless to say Kort put in his transfer papers from the CIA to NCIS immediately. He didn’t want to be stuck at the CIA while that investigation was going on.
He was mostly in the clear since the plot was against him, but he was sure there would be some things that he was ordered to do that weren’t actually legal CIA missions that would come up during the investigation. He’d had more missions given to him by Brisco than he preferred to admit. Plus, he apparently had the possibility of a new relationship to pursue.
He couldn’t wait to find out just how much of McGee’s geekiness actually existed and what other hidden gems about the man he could discover. He knew he’d be taking the role of probie on the MCRT and would probably be in for some hazing, but he couldn’t say he was worried about it. After the CIA anything the MCRT tossed his way as far as hazing was concerned would be easy to handle.
He was excited to start his new life as Garrett Kort and couldn’t wait to find out what it had in store for him, starting with the double date McGee had promised him that his mother had screwed up. When he asked about it, he wasn’t surprised to find out that Bishop and Tony were backing out now that the case was closed. It had been pretty obvious that relationship was just a cover.
McGee, however, was quite willing to take Kort out. It was the first of many dates they would have. Kort knew there was a rule against dating coworkers, but with Gibbs retired and no one else seeming to care, he didn’t let it bother him as he explored the finer things in life with McGee.